Wichita eagle., 1887-12-01
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BENJAMIN
AND
DEBORAH FRANKLIN.

benjamin Franklin, after many yeare
spent abroad enlightening men, gaining
fresh wisdom, and laurels, came home to
live in quiet retirement with his son-in-
law, Col Richard Bache, at the old man
sion, which stood in a large park Oh
Market street. near Fourth, this CITY.
Shortly after that he wrote a friend: Il
am now in the bosom OF my family and
find our four little prattlers, who cling
about the knees Of their grandpapa, afford
me great pleasure. ! an surrounded by
my friends and have a good daughter and
s0n-in-law TO take care of me. / have got
into my niche, very good house, which |
built tWenty-foUr years ago and out of
which 1 have been kept ever since by
emplOyments. -
BUT A SHORT TINE.
Franklin had q small printing press set
up on one Of the upper floors of the house,
with which he amused himself many an
hour by his experiments. Bot so busy q life
was not destined to be prolonged in quiet
ness. He had been settled tU: short time
when his life light went out on Saturday,
April II, 1880, when he was nearly SIS
Three days later, now nearly a hundred
years ago, his remains were conveyed to
the Old Friends burying ground and placed
beside those of his wife and the thin stone
Slab laid over them.
There was mourning throughout this
and other lands Twenty thousand people
crowded the streets around that old bury
ing ground on the day Of the funeral, and
as the simple cortegc passed over the few
squares between the house and the grove
bells throughout the city tolled and min
ute guns doomed mourrfully. Clergymen
Of the city of all denominations. the su-
preme executive council of the state tof
which Franklin had been PRESIDENT. the
state assembly, judges of the supreme
court, members of the bar, the officials Of
the city, printers and their wOrkmen, the
Philosophical society, the College of Ply
sicians, the students and faculty Of the
Philadelphia college and many civic or
ganizItions attended the funeral Tho
pail bearers were Governor Thomas Mifiin,
Chief Justice Mexican, Thomas Willing,
president Of the Bank of North America;
Mayor Samuel Powell, William Bingham
and David RittenhoUse. Following the
death and burfQl Of Franklin came honors
ard eulOgiums from everywhere In con-
gress Madison jfTered a resolution which
said: Benjamin Franklin was a citizen
whose native genius was not more an or
naineut 10 human nature than his various
cxertions of it have been precious to
science"
Friends of Liberty" in France erected
8 mausoleum. but Franklin's unhcnored
grave rests amid the turmoil and con-
fusion of a great. busy city.-Philadelphie
Cor. New York World.
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Varied factors affect the cure Much de.
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yironnent. Recurrence of the original dis
ease must be carefully watched lest 1t be made
the pretext for an occasional taking, which
will incur large risk Of confirmed reuse.
Alcoholic taking greatly lessons the prospect
of permanent recovery. The ex-opium
habitue must, If be values his future good,
entirely abstain from alcohol.
The heroic plan Of abrupt, complete disUse
deserves the saverest condemnation. No ply
sician is warranted save under Circumstances
peculiar and Leyond control, IN EUbjec:ing his
patie,t to the torturing ordeal Of such with
drawal This PLAZA hes the sanction Of men
otherwise eminent in the profession, but
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them. that Ike q somewhat famous nautical
individual. =thev mean well. but they don't
know"
Theory is one thing, pracfics another, end
I GIN quite certain were taey compelled 10
UNDERGO the trial there would be rapid and
radical change Of opinion / regard the plan
ne cr,,,y and fundamentally unworthy Q
healing art 8. Mattison. Il D., IN The
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